Star Wars Griefing Thread (SPOILERS) - Safety off

GeneralFriendliness said:
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Lucasfilm Exec Kathleen Kennedy Explains Why Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker Trailers Spoiled Major Reveals

Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker marketing has been purposefully more revealing to welcome [...]
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(Warning to all of you with sensitive ears: content contains Geeky Sparkles' voice)
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You're so thoughtful. Thanks for the warning.

So, I apparently didn't click quote like 5 pages back but I always thought the AT Walkers all had the intimidation factor. Sure, tank treads make a loud noise but just think about how loud the steps of a walker would be. Think of each step causing the Earth to shake. I believe that was the idea behind using them.

All this EU talk reminded me of the 1995 Guide to characters books. I just got one used off of Amazon for 3 bucks with shipping. Time to go down memory lane.
 
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mindlessobserver said:
Not at all. Because Force Awakens supposedly takes place 13 years after this show, and in that time everyone seems to have magically forgotten everything that happened at the end of Return of the Jedi (20 years later), and that SOMEHOW, in the span of just TWO DECADES, the New Republic managed to unite the galaxy, disarm itself unilaterally, and let some shit called the First Order take over using a superweapon that not only has the power to destroy multiplate star systems at once, but also give people watching it happen the power to see events happening light years apart instantly.

Oh, and never once is the New Republic mentioned in the disney movies. Not even as a throw away line. Its just "the resistance". Which begs the question, the resistance to what? The First Order? In Force Awakens aren't the First Order trying to conquer the galaxy? Wouldn't that make THEM the resistance? Resisting the New Republic? And why would the New Republic just roll over and let it happen? Is there reason? Is it EXPLAINED? Not at all. Even now after the abortion that is TLJ we STILL don't know what the First Order fucking is, or how it came to "reign", or why we should even care.
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They do to be fair, Hux briefly rants about them and the senate before turning on Starkiller Base, and then they're completely irrelevant afterwards. They're never mentioned before or after so the entirety of the New Republic's influence might as well have been the handful of planets that get blown up more or less as background noise.
 
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GeneralFriendliness said:
Now a bigger challenge would be to try and make this Porsche+Disney abomination fit into Star Wars.
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Why am I not surprised that Disney managed to make a Porsche uglier than Hitler ever could?
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Notgoodwithusernames said:
So whose excited for December 20.... the day the brand suffers what has a pretty good chance of being the killing blow for a long lasting franchise that was once beloved by many generations
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I am so there. I remember saying to my partner that it was time for Star Wars to just go away for a while... Then not long after Disney announced they bought the rights and were making a new trilogy... *sigh*
 
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Notgoodwithusernames said:
So whose excited for December 20.... the day the brand suffers what has a pretty good chance of being the killing blow for a long lasting franchise that was once beloved by many generations
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The lesson needs to be taught. Play stupid games, win stupid prizes, as they're so fond of saying.
 
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People expecting a catastrophic bomb at the box office are a bit too hyped, I guess.
Expect this movie to make a decent amount of cash, since it'll be a bland mess where all issues that we have are actually only issues when you switch on your brain - something the average movie goer doesn't do by default, he has been trained by Marvel, Fast and Furious, Michael Bay and the likes not to do that.

The movie might make less money than TLJ, continuing the steady downfall, and it will be enough of a blunder (if you factor in the cost of the franchise), that Disney will take some time to retool their plans for the franchise, but it won't be a Solo-like failure. Sadly.
 
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Lodoss Warrior said:
Now that is interesting. I wonder how this model would change if toy manufacturing vs sales, Galaxy's Edge, and other miscellaneous expenses and intake are accounted for?
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The cost of making Galaxy's Edge would more than eat up any money made by selling licenses for toys and video games, at least that's my hunch. GE cost them a billion or two and their second main attraction hasn't been running up til a few days ago (and it's still experiencing issues). As well as some stuff in GE being shelf-warmers with only a few items really selling (and being sold out quickly).
 
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RomanesEuntDomus said:
People expecting a catastrophic bomb at the box office are a bit too hyped, I guess.
Expect this movie to make a decent amount of cash, since it'll be a bland mess where all issues that we have are actually only issues when you switch on your brain - something the average movie goer doesn't do by default, he has been trained by Marvel, Fast and Furious, Michael Bay and the likes not to do that.

The movie might make less money than TLJ, continuing the steady downfall, and it will be enough of a blunder (if you factor in the cost of the franchise), that Disney will take some time to retool their plans for the franchise, but it won't be a Solo-like failure. Sadly.
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Even if it did bomb, the Rat will definitely pull every dirty trick in their book to make sure everything looks a-okay at the box office. That being said, the salt mine that is the Disney shills will be so great, it won't matter personally.

On a side note, I think it's about time I put on some solemn music to set the tone for the end of the Sequel Trilogy and farewell to our beloved new heroes:
 
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ManateeHunter said:
Even if it did bomb, the Rat will definitely pull every dirty trick in their book to make sure everything looks a-okay at the box office. That being said, the salt mine that is the Disney shills will be so great, it won't matter personally.

On a side note, I think it's about time I put on some solemn music to set the tone for the end of the Sequel Trilogy and farewell to our beloved new heroes:
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Here I stand, in a lost and lonely ticket queue
With the two other spergs daft enough to see this poo
Don't they know, Last Jedi was smart and I loved Solo
I really should be much more stoked, much more stoked
But this is a joke, a bad joke!

Disney Wars!
When the story's gone and you can't go on
It's Disney Wars!
When expectations subvert and your profits hurt
It's hard to bear
When hipsters paean you you're going nowhere

Disney Wars!
When you feel a wretch and credibility's stretched
Disney Wars!
When your actors cry and you don't know why
It's hard to bear
Having to pander to danger hairs
 
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